Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Shipping uses over 300 million tonnes of fossil fuels every year, producing 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. One is a thorium-fueled molten-salt reactor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. Our intention as an airline industry is to continue to do our part by supporting the use of alternative fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

UOP LLC’s renewable jet fuel process technology will be used to produce almost 600,000 gallons of renewable jet fuel for the US Navy and Air Force as part of a joint program for the US Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) for alternative fuels testing and certification. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

ISO Technical Report (TR) 19880-1 is a first step towards standardizing hydrogen filling stations, and providing more up-to-date guidance than that developed as the earlier ISO TS 20100, published in 2008. A new Web site— H2Protocol.com —is sharing data to help accelerate the commercialization of hydrogen fueling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

As reported in a paper in the International Journal of Engine Research , the hybrid method, which combines both particle swarm optimization (PSO) and genetic algorithm (GA) methods was able to locate a narrow window of operation which showed 27% lower NO x emissions and 60% lower particulate matter emissions than a standard PSO method.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2009

According to the study, Evaluation of Bio-Derived Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (Bio-SPK) , a series of laboratory, ground and flight tests conducted between 2006 and 2009 indicated the Bio-SPK test fuels performed as well as or better than typical petroleum-based Jet A. IATA 2008 Report on Alternative Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

Heavy-duty vehicles: medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, mostly used for goods movement and commercial and industrial use, as well as off-road equipment. Fuels: liquid petroleum fuels that dominate transportation today and renewable and alternative fuels that can act as substitutes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Tags: Electric (Battery) Europe Fuels Hydrogen. Energy, power generation and distribution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. So there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using these renewable fuels throughout America. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

Air-Car Ready for Mass Production Bob Ewig Popular Mechanics May 31, 2007 The world's first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the streets of India by 2008. 18% Alternative fuel hybrid. 39% Plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

HRI), which were commercialized with support from the US Department of Energy and industrial clients. There are two basic approaches to converting coal to synthetic fuels: indirect liquefaction (ICL) (Fischer-Tropsch) and direct (Bergius). Optimizing Refinery Operations & Alternative Fuels Production (Axens, 2009).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The first target (1999-2002) was compressed natural gas (CNG), liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other combustion alternative fuel vehicles (CAFVs), in a program called the Clean Auto Auction. With the 10 th 5-year Plan (“10-5”, 2002-2006), the government introduced the goal of developing and commercializing electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

I suspect that the correct plug will be of a twist-lock design as is typical of many higher voltage and amperage plugs used in commercial service and for industrial equipment. Perhaps you should have checked that before posting. as stated. 5 Clayton B. Cornell said on April 20th, 2009 at 4:43 am Emily, thanks for spell checking for us.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Batteries not ready.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Peugeot e-208, e-2008 – at least one of Peugeot’s compact BEVs will arrive Down Under by 2022. e-208 hatch is firming as the early favourite. RR has also committed to going wholly EV by 2030.

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